List of Famous people born in France
André Ayew
André Morgan Rami Ayew, also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Championship club Swansea City and captains the Ghana national team.
Jean-Claude Romand
Jean-Claude Romand is a French spree killer and impostor who pretended to be a medical doctor for 18 years before killing his wife, children, and his parents when he was about to be exposed.
Anne Roumanoff
Anne Roumanoff is a French comedian and actress.
Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. Today he is remembered primarily for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook.
Patrice Alègre
Patrice Alègre (born 20 June 1968) is a French serial killer who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 with a minimum term of 22 years for five murders, an attempted murder, and six rapes. He, subsequently, was acquitted of four additional murder charges on July 3, 2008.
Camille Razat
Camille Razat is a French actress and model. She is known for playing Lea Morel in France 2 drama The Disappearance, and for playing Camille in the Netflix television series Emily in Paris.
Priscilla Betti
Priscilla Betti, formerly known as simply Priscilla, is a French singer, dancer and actress. She released her first single at the age of 12, and has released five albums. In 2008–2011 she played the main part in the French musical TV series Chante!.
Catherine Jacob
Catherine Jacob is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress.
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
Roland Garros
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French pioneering aviator and fighter pilot during World War I and early days of aviation. In 1928, the Roland Garros tennis stadium was named in his memory; the French Open tennis tournament takes the name of Roland-Garros from the stadium in which it is held.